If Congress makes good on its promise to repeal parts of Obamacare, by 2019 an estimate 2.55 million Texans would no longer have coverage, resulting in greater financial pressure on local governments, healthcare providers and the insured, according to a new public health study.

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Saturday is the opening of the second part of the divided season on ducks in the South Zone, which includes all of the coastal and adjoining counties. It could not come at a better time as conditions have changed dramatically from two weeks ago when the first part of the season closed.

It looks like Santa will be taking a different route this year. The Santa Hustle race series, known for dressing its participants in Santa hats and fluffy white beards, has developed a new course for its Galveston race, scheduled for Dec. 18.

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Today, marks a century since the passing of Nicholas Joseph Clayton, the premier architect of historic Galveston. The island wouldn't be the place it is without his legacy of talent which continues to influence building design today.

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Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote that “The world will be saved by beauty,” which leads us to ask two rhetorical questions: first, does this mean that the world is lost and, second, is ugliness to blame for its condition? Rhetorical questions require no answer, but what we can see for ourselves is that in their multiple forms — artistic, personal and moral — beauty and ugliness contend for cultural supremacy. Today the general consensus among humanistic thinkers is that a “cult of ugliness” prevails.

Body of teenager killed 42 years ago in Texas City exhumed for DNA testing

County exhumes body of teen killed in 1973

A grave marker for an unknown teen killed in 1973 is moved from its grave Wednesday February 10, 2016, as county medical examiner officials exhume the boy’s body at Hayes Grace Memorial Park in Hitchcock to retrieve a sample for DNA testing.

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County exhumes body of teen killed in 1973

Dr. Erin Barnhart, third from right, chief medical examiner for the county, watches workers Wednesday February 10, 2016, as they chisel away the rubber seal of a burial vault exhumed at Hayes Grace Memorial Park in Hitchcock. The vault contained the body of an unidentified teen killed in 1973.

Courtesy of the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System

Joseph Norman Spears

This photo of Joseph Norman Spears is the closest to his appearance when he went missing from Gulfport, Mississippi in 1973.

Photo courtesy of National Center for Missing and Exploited Children

Joseph Norman Spears

Authorities believe this age-progression photo of Joseph Norman Spears depicts how he might look today. The 17-year-old went missing in 1973.

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Joseph Norman Spears

The mother of Joseph Norman Spears believes this photo of her missing son was taken in 1968 or 1969. Spears went missing from Gulfport, Mississippi in 1973.

Photo courtesy of the Galveston County Medical Examiner’s Office.

Unidentified teenager

This image disseminated by authorities in 1973 shows an artist’s rendering of a boy killed in an auto-pedestrian crash on Interstate 45.

A dozen people watched as a front-end loader slowly lifted the muddy burial vault from a grave dug at the edge of a Hitchcock cemetery more than four decades ago. When it touched down on the green grass beside the pit, men went to work on the lid with chisels, their task to reveal the wooden casket of an unknown boy.

The boy in the wooden casket had gone to his grave unidentified and remains so, despite efforts by investigators to identify him. He was known to be a teenager who was struck and killed by a motorist on Interstate 45 in 1973. He was buried without a name.